ball

Said 65 times, in 32 of 378 sermons, across 15 Sundays. Spoken as 2 forms: ball 61, balls 4.

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Across the series

Where this word has been used, and how much. The entry itself is church-wide on purpose — a word is a word, whichever series it turned up in.

Series	Times said	Sermons
Romans	43	23
Let Us	12	3

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ou're like, no, I am stressed. I am angry. I'm bitter. I am a ball of confusion and nerves and everything else. Okay. You're not

Chuck Lindsey28 Jun 202647:20

e problem is we try to conglomerate it all together into this ball that is like 10% God and 90% of the world. And we wonder, why

Josh Yates28 Jun 202635:59

to see how big of a boom this will be and so we add a bowling ball into the dresser because we want to see how far this bowling

Justin Dean5 Jul 20265:39

into the dresser because we want to see how far this bowling ball will go and I'll tell you students and kids in the room this

Justin Dean5 Jul 20265:39

e like taking a look at it and uh it had launched the bowling ball like 50 feet if it launched the bowling ball towards us we wo

Justin Dean5 Jul 20267:33

ched the bowling ball like 50 feet if it launched the bowling ball towards us we would have been playing some dodgeball but not

Justin Dean5 Jul 20267:33

ally literally to umpire, to make the calls, to say if it's a ball or a strike, to, to lead you, let the peace of God rule your

Jayson Combs19 Jul 202615:23

s individuals. This is not an accidental thing. This is not a ball of chemicals. This is not a ball of different things. No, God

Caleb Combs26 Jul 202623:08

idental thing. This is not a ball of chemicals. This is not a ball of different things. No, God created life. All the way back i

Caleb Combs26 Jul 202623:11

e creation and said, good luck, have fun. He didn't start the ball rolling and then has nothing to do with it. What we read in t

Patrick Bicknell26 Jul 202618:32

let-us

and play board games. And so someone suggested we play wiffle ball . And so if you know my personality, I don't do anything like

Caleb Combs16 Aug 202629:26

ou're 42. Okay. All right. And so they started to play wiffle ball and different things. And so I really said this in my head, j

Caleb Combs16 Aug 202629:40

like the bases are not 90 feet and so i round second and the ball of the wiffle ball is just behind third base and so remember

Caleb Combs16 Aug 202630:33

not 90 feet and so i round second and the ball of the wiffle ball is just behind third base and so remember i have already comm

Caleb Combs16 Aug 202630:33

right i i really have no it's all good it's just a fun wiffle ball game and somehow in my brain i'm thinking you know what he's

Caleb Combs16 Aug 202630:46

now what he's not gonna be able to hit me with the the wiffle ball it's like 10 feet behind third base i'll be fine but you know

Caleb Combs16 Aug 202630:52

g to third base when you probably shouldn't in a kid's wiffle ball game i realize that but it's giving everything you have it's

Caleb Combs16 Aug 202631:48

s what sin is, right? If you're running a race and you have a ball and chain or a snare attached to your leg, obviously you aren

John Carter30 Aug 202612:16

toward a finish line, I'm like, okay. But if I have to put a ball in a hole, or hit a ball into a field, or, you know, I don't

Josh Yates30 Aug 20262:09

m like, okay. But if I have to put a ball in a hole, or hit a ball into a field, or, you know, I don't kick the ball, but I love

Josh Yates30 Aug 20262:10

e, or hit a ball into a field, or, you know, I don't kick the ball , but I love coaching people who kick the ball, you know, that

Josh Yates30 Aug 20262:12

don't kick the ball, but I love coaching people who kick the ball , you know, that I can wrap my head around. But this is a tota

Josh Yates30 Aug 20262:12

romans

1:18-32 The NEED

go, hey, don't hit it there. Hit it here. Let's go find your ball over here in the woods over, you know, behind the house, you

Jayson Combs4 May 20258:37

behind the house, you know, wherever high school kids hit the ball . And so I get to, so coaching them. And there was this mom an

Jayson Combs4 May 20258:41

Doesn't know the game of golf, right? There's, there's white balls flying all over the place. This is danger. I don't like it. A

Jayson Combs4 May 20259:52

chool. I did that in high school. Or maybe you played college ball . Or maybe you played professional ball. That becomes your who

John Carter4 May 202532:32

ybe you played college ball. Or maybe you played professional ball . That becomes your whole identity. And see, what we're doing

John Carter4 May 202532:33

sinful acts here. This idea of suppression, it's like a beach ball in a pool or at the beach, wherever you are with that. You tr

Keaton Washburn4 May 20253:41

right? I thought I could probably go hit at least a bucket of balls . But I saw the parking lot filled at 8.15 in the morning, rig

Lee Hotchkiss25 May 20255:08

eat this week and I was so out of schedule and I dropped that ball . If you can pull it up quickly, that'd be awesome. See what y

Josh Yates1 Jun 202513:46

he got the second out. And the batter was up to bat, hits the ball , ground ball. They throw it. The first base player at first i

Jayson Combs8 Jun 202512:57

cond out. And the batter was up to bat, hits the ball, ground ball . They throw it. The first base player at first is out. He has

Jayson Combs8 Jun 202512:57

count as a hole in one? Because right before that, he put the ball down, hit a shot into the water, and he had to reach. So he w

Jayson Combs8 Jun 202514:03

, uh, kind of boring as a kid. I remember kicking. The soccer ball through the window one time and, uh, never saw the soccer bal

Josh Combs6 Jul 202515:59

all through the window one time and, uh, never saw the soccer ball again. Uh, so it was kind of that, that type of house. It was

Josh Combs6 Jul 202516:01

ne. And alongside of this golf course, we would look for golf balls . It was just kind of a fun thing to do, especially if there w

Josh Combs6 Jul 202516:19

t was very structured, very regimented house. So we'd go golf ball hunting. And that was just like a little treasure hunt. Get,

Josh Combs6 Jul 202516:40

ure hunt. Get, get out of the house. And, and I remember golf ball hunting with my grandpa one time. And there was this tree wit

Josh Combs6 Jul 202516:45

d tree is vine growing up around it. So my grandpa would golf ball hunt every single day. And he would keep an eye on this, keep

Josh Combs6 Jul 202517:07

s Romans 6, 2. Well, I know I've sinned. I know I dropped the ball . I know I have this, that, or the other thing. And again, I'l

Ryan Story6 Jul 202519:08

to me and goes hey you're working really hard don't shoot the ball . So I got into the game and I touched the ball and about thre

Jayson Combs20 Jul 202527:05

on't shoot the ball. So I got into the game and I touched the ball and about three seconds later a shot went up and I missed it.

Jayson Combs20 Jul 202527:05

m giving you my internal talk, okay? All right? This is about balls . So our response is going, man, I want to serve the Lord. I w

Caleb Combs27 Jul 202521:23

you want to do on the golf course, but every time you hit the ball , it goes the exact same opposite direction. That's just the w

Josh Yates27 Jul 202516:58

ole, if water's over there, I'm aiming here. That's where the ball goes. It's like it has a homing beacon every single time. It'

Josh Yates27 Jul 202517:10

autiful, intimate relationship. You're not a far off, distant ball of fire. No, no, no. God, you're an intimate, beautiful relat

Caleb Combs17 Aug 202546:34

what you were supposed to do, right? Like you had to throw a ball to the catcher. All these eyes were going to be on you. Why d

Justin Dean7 Sep 202514:02

to be on you. Why did you not go and practice how to throw a ball , right? Like, why did you not go and be like, hey, you know,

Justin Dean7 Sep 202514:08

. And so I loved watching Alan Trammell, the way he fielded a ball and the way he ran to the bases and just even running onto th

Caleb Combs21 Sep 20259:31

me now? Well, what if this person over here is a major slime ball full of hate? Hates people. Hurts people. Bad dude. What if h

Roy Townsend5 Oct 202523:07

u will be saved. Well, I don't like that. That dude's a slime ball . That dude hurt me. It's difficult. It's tense. But it's true

Roy Townsend5 Oct 202523:33

ur basketball hoop. I'm driving, I was like, hey, pass me the ball . So instead of like bringing me the ball and like handing it

Ryan Story5 Oct 20252:01

ke, hey, pass me the ball. So instead of like bringing me the ball and like handing it to me in the car, because I was going to

Ryan Story5 Oct 20252:03

ry to do a sweet Dude Perfect shot myself, he like throws the ball up, and then the basketball just like bounces off the front w

Ryan Story5 Oct 20252:03

around as believers of Christ in like you're in a masquerade ball right no I'm just like you I'm just like you that's what Paul

Lee Hotchkiss19 Oct 202525:25

to love those who love you back. It is. But it's a different ball game when they persecute you. When they're teasing you. When

Gary Wright2 Nov 202528:01

alftime, he just, it literally just looks like, he throws the ball randomly and it hits and he scores a three-pointer from half

Justin Dean2 Nov 202512:24

wish that I had the ability to just like basically throw the ball in the air. And it was like a magnet was drawing it into the

Justin Dean2 Nov 202512:49

t? With Steph Curry, who just seems like he just effortlessly ball and difficult shots and it goes in, right? But we don't get t

Justin Dean2 Nov 202513:56

an example where they had to look at something and throw the ball to them. And the kids thought, oh I can throw the ball to you

Gary Wright16 Nov 202531:33

ow the ball to them. And the kids thought, oh I can throw the ball to you when you're not looking. But guess what? They couldn't

Gary Wright16 Nov 202531:37

o get up. We got to go. It is saying, if you are a Christian, ball is saying, Hey, listen, he says, salvation is nearer than whe

Jayson Combs16 Nov 202519:42

an. "Later, a lady of the nobility wore stockings "at a court ball , greatly to the scandal of many people. "Before long, however

Josh Yates23 Nov 202527:13

hat are in the game, and you have special powers, you throw a ball at them, it captures them, and then you can throw the ball ag

Mitchell Holmes23 Nov 20256:33

a ball at them, it captures them, and then you can throw the ball again to re-release them into the wild to fight against other

Mitchell Holmes23 Nov 20256:33

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